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Petite plant grows only 3-4' tall in containers or outside in frost free areas. Can produce very tasty fruit if grown outside in the warm months. Does well indoors or on a patio. The smallest dwarf banana we've seen! Care: good light, water thoroughly but never allow to sit in water. Feed balanced fertilizer that's high in potassium every few months, protect from frost. We fruit our Novak Super Dwarfs in at least 25 gallon containers. This gives the plant plenty of room to produce a bunch of bananas. We let the 1st banana yellow on the plant then cut the stalk with the bananas attached and hang them in a place like a kitchen and pick them as they ripen. I'd like to see more of these beauties planted in office buildings lobbies, malls, Florida rooms, and enclosed pools. zone 9-10

Plant Characteristics
Pest Resistance	Excellent
Disease Resistance	Excellent
Drought Tolerance	Fair
Heat Tolerance	Excellent
Humidity Tolerance	Excellent
Sun Tolerance	Very Good
Wet Soil Tolerance	Fair
Shade Tolerance	Fair
No Spray	Very Good
Salt Tolerance	Poor
Fun for Kids	Excellent
Thorns	No
Soil Type	Fertile
Edible Type	Fruit
Self Fertile	Yes
this information is accurate to the best of our knowledge, comments/opinions are always welcome

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The super dwarf qualities of this banana plant allow for practical in home or patio enjoyment. Create a tropical atmosphere with the most widely recognized of all tropical foliage plants. As a true Banana plant, flowering and fruit is possible but unlikely under average household conditions.

Care
Good light, water thoroughly before wilting but never allow to sit in water, feed balanced fertilizer quarterly, protect from frost. Banana plants can fruit if a solar greenhouse or sun room that gets hot in the summer is provided. Also, moving the banana outside to the sunnies location can give fruiting results especially if the pot is planted in the ground or the pot is large enough (15-35 gallon size pot) for the plant to set fruit.

Once the fruiting stalk has produced it should be cut off, allowing the new growth coming from the soil, to grow into dominance. If more than one sprout is coming the plant can be divided. I've divided the banana plant by pulling it out of the pot and sawing or machining from the top of the soil line to the bottom, and repotting the divisions in separate pots.

Growing Bananas outside in South Florida
Potassium Nitrate is a very good source of potassium 13 parts nitrogen 0 parts phosphorus and 44 parts potash. Also, trace elements and manure, bananas love manure and mulch Coconut mulch is best.

Bananas are an exhaustive crop on the soil. There are banana fields in Ecuador that are 20 years old and are still growing well. It is a matter of culture and replenishment of soil. The soil shouldn't get too wet to the point that it is flooded but rather well drained. As a banana moves around or walks across the top of the ground you need to replenish with manures and chemical fertilizers where it just left. Shortly afterwards it is ready to move back to that place. With good care you can keep a banana plantation in place for a long time but it is very labor intensive.

The fully ripe banana with dark patches on yellow skin produces a substance called TNF which has the ability to combat abnormal cells. As the banana ripens, it develops dark spots or patches on the skin. The more dark patches it has, the higher will be it's immunity enhancement quality… hence the Japanese love bananas for a good reason.

According to a Japanese scientific research, bananas contain TNF which has anti-cancer properties. The degree of anti-cancer effect corresponds to the degree of ripeness of the fruit, i.e. the riper the banana, the better the anti-cancer quality. In an animal experiment carried out by a professor in Tokyo University comparing the various health benefits of different fruits, using banana, grape, apple, water melon, pineapple, pear and persimmon, it was found that banana gave the best results. It increased the number of white blood cells, enhanced the immunity of the body and produced anti-cancer substance TNF.

The recommendation is to eat 1 to 2 banana a day to increase your body immunity to disease like cold, flu and others. According to the Japanese professor, yellow skin bananas with dark spots on it are 8 times more effective in enhancing the property of white blood cells than the green skin version.

Information Growing Bananas in South Florida from 'Volume 51, #6 Tropical Fruit News, Bill Lessard'